[gobolinux-users] open office versus OO.o

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:14:12 +0200, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls at pareto.nl>
>> If I have to talk to Word users I need something that will not only
>> translate a word document into something legible, but also be able to
>> convert my changes back to .doc so the other person can read it. [..]
>
> As I understand it, Microsoft Word doc is little more than a binary
> dump of objects used by Word, so it is really awkward to write.  If
> you just need to send them files which can be loaded into Word, RTF
> works well enough.
>
Even though GoboLinux isn't aimed at beginners there's a big difference  
for a computer illiterate to save as doc and rtf. Most of us can manage to  
do it easy, but there are users that can't. For example at home I have  
installed the OOo suite, but I have preconfigured my fiance's version to  
always save as doc, as I would have got a phonecall per week where she  
asks me why her document she wrote at home doesn't open in word at her  
office. Most users just want something that works (tm) and OOo is better  
at that than most smaller, open office suites.
I vote for keeping OOo.

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/Jonas

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